Friday, 28 February 2014

Pyongyang, March 1 (KCNA) -- The spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of
the DPRK gave the following answer to the question raised by KCNA
Saturday blasting U.S. Secretary of State Kerry's recent malignant
mud-slinging at the DPRK:
Kerry in an interview on February 26 dared term the DPRK an "evil
place" and next day he again pulled it up when he was releasing the U.S.
Department of State's "Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for
2013."
This is another vivid expression of the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK.
The U.S. secretary of State obsessed with hostility toward the DPRK can hardly understand supreme leaderKim Jong Un's
politics based on his love for the people and the situation of the
DPRK where his people-first principle is being strictly observed thanks
to it. Such hostile elements like Kerry would not like to see them
though all other people in the world will be able to understand them in
the future.

Kerry's malignant invectives against the social system in the DPRK
are no more than a manifestation of his frustration and outbursts let
loose by the defeated as the DPRK is winning one victory after another
despite the whole gamut of pressure upon it over the nuclear issue.
Before blaming others, Kerry had better ponder over what to say of
the U.S., tundra of human rights, as it commits horrible genocide in
various parts of the world in disregard of international law under the
signboard of "liberty" and "democracy".
The above-said reports do not deserve even a passing note as they are peppered with all lies and hypocrisy.
No matter what a wicked hypocrite he is, he should bear in mind that no pressure is workable on the DPRK.
No problem can be solved between the DPRK and the U.S. as long as
the U.S. persists in its hostile policy toward the DPRK. The DPRK will
keep going its own way. -0-

Pyongyang,
February 28 (KCNA) -- The Commission of Inquiry (CI) on the human
rights situations in the DPRK, organized under the UN Human Rights
Council, has recently released a "report".
The "report" misrepresents the true picture of the DPRK people
enjoying genuine rights and is peppered with sheer lies and
fabrications, deliberately cooked up by such riff-raffs as those who
defected from the DPRK and criminals who escaped from it after
committing crimes in the country.
That is why many countries and even Western media have said that the
"report" is so biased and has no credibility, querying how such thing
could be distributed as a UN document.
Russia's Internet magazine Tibilrus said in an article titled "UN
Creature" that the "report" was apparently ordered, adding the United
Nations damaged its prestige with such absurd and vague document.
Questionable is the fact that the "report" was released at a time when
the DPRK has exerted much effort for improved north-south relations and
the reunification of the divided country, the article pointed out.
Jean-Vincent Brisset, an expert at a French institute of strategic
studies, said in an interview with the newspaper La Croix that he could
hardly recognize the "report" as it is an unscientific document without
the confirmation of data. And he stressed that the "report" should,
instead, mention how the United States has pursued its hostile policy
toward the DPRK and destroyed the gains made between the north and the
south of Korea for decades.
Rosanita Campos, vice-president of the Party for Free Motherland of
Brazil, said in a statement titled "Obama's servant invents a Nazi
report against the DPRK" carried in the newspaper Hora do Povo:
Nobody knows Michael Kirby, who would appear abruptly in exclusive
reptile media of various countries to make false propaganda against
socialist Korea.
He is likely the chairman of a UN committee on Korean affairs which
acts under the U.S. baton. His mission is to make false rumours about
the DPRK by concocting "evidences" as demanded by Washington and thus
join the U.S.-led international cooperation against the DPRK.
He has neither been to Pyongyang nor met with government officials of the DPRK.
But, following without any consideration the Nazi theory that making
rounds of lies turns to be truth, he had been invited on many occasions
to Seoul where all structures are ready to collect "evidence" needed to
work out the "report", a false document, through interviews with south
Koreans and some "defectors from the north".
His Nazist approach towards the DPRK is aimed to paint socialist
Korea as the Nazis abusing human rights and sue the DPRK to the
International Criminal Court that works for political interests of the
U.S. and its allies taking as a target of attack the statesmen of
countries which do not follow Neo-liberalism.
The facts clearly show that the "report" is an extremely dangerous
political provocation aimed to undermine the DPRK's social system by
defiling its dignified image and tightening pressure upon it. It is an
outcome of the U.S. disgusting hostility towards the DPRK that has
continued for scores of years.
The U.S. is a kingpin of human rights violation, which slaughters
innocent people, bringing untold disasters through aggression and
intervention worldwide.
It has killed civilians in Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Pakistan and
other countries and openly supplied weapons to rebel forces in
independent countries including Syria, flagrantly violating their
sovereignty.
It operates prisons in different parts of the world, including Guantanamo, maltreating the inmates.
The U.S., tundra of human rights and a veritable hell, is infamous for systematic worldwide tapping and surveillance.
Therefore, it is preposterous for the U.S. to talk about other's "human rights violation".
The U.S. is the mastermind of worldwide human rights abuses and a
special-class human rights abuser that should have been brought to the
International Criminal Court.
The DPRK people will never remain an onlooker to such disgusting
deed of slinging mud at the dignity and social system of the DPRK,
prompted by inveterate antagonism toward the Korean-style socialism
centred on the popular masses.
The foolish attempt of the hostile forces to infringe upon the
sovereignty of the DPRK and undermine its socialist system by making a
bad use of the human rights issue for insidious political purpose will
meet a stern punishment by history. -0-

Thursday, 27 February 2014

Kim Jong Un
made a speech "Let Us Hasten the Final Victory through a Revolutionary
Ideological Offensive!" at the 8th Conference of Ideological Workers of
the Workers' Party of Korea.
The full text of his speech is as follows:
In the meaningful period, when we greeted the 40th anniversary of the proclaiming by the great Comrade Kim Jong Il
of modelling the whole society on Kimilsungism as the maximum programme
of our Party, we are holding the Eighth Conference of Ideological
Workers of the Workers’ Party of Korea.
Availing myself of this opportunity and in reflection of the
unanimous wish of all the participants in this conference and all other
members of the Party, I pay the noblest tribute to the great President Kim Il Sung, the founder and builder of the ever-victorious Workers' Party of Korea, and to the great General Kim Jong Il, the eternal General Secretary of the Party.
And on the occasion of this conference I extend, in the name of the
First Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, warm thanks and militant
greetings to the participants in the conference and all other
ideological workers of the Party and primary information workers across
the country, who have worked devotedly at workplaces and military posts,
burning their hearts as buglers of the revolution and pathfinders of
the times.
This conference convened on a scale unprecedented in the history of
our Party will be a milestone of radical turn in exalting forever the
brilliance of the imperishable exploits performed by the great President
and the great General, who, holding the unfurled banner of the Juche
idea, led the Korean revolution straightforward along the road
resplendent with victory, in understanding and confirming once again the
importance of ideological work and launching a vigorous ideological
offensive as demanded by the developing revolution.
The most powerful weapon for a party that wages a revolution
shouldering people's destiny is ideology, and it is its one and only
weapon. Without ideology, a party cannot be founded nor can it exist,
and its work and revolutionary struggle are inconceivable separated from
ideological work. The bloodline of the revolution is defended and the
revolution advances on the strength of ideology.
The one and only weapon for the Korean revolution that made its
start empty-handed was a great revolutionary ideology. The
revolutionaries of Korea rallied comrades and obtained weapons on the
strength of the ideology; and on its strength they defeated imperialist
powers and built a prospering socialism. We cannot see a revolution in
the history of any country and of any party that, like our revolution,
made its start with its definite guiding ideology and has turned
ideology into a powerful force for a great struggle and transformation.
The whole course of the Korean revolution can be called a history of
ideological work to give fullest play to the might of the truth of the
revolutionary ideology of the President and the General.
In our revolution ideological work has always been the most
important work, and a great tradition of ideological work was created in
its first days.
Thanks to the wise leadership of the President and the General, who
gave definite priority to ideological work and resolved all problems by
enlisting the mental strength of the masses of the people in the whole
course of their leadership of the Korean revolution, the revolution
could etch only victory in its flag although it blazed the trail of
history. By bringing about high tides in the mental strength of the
service personnel and people, our Party has turned the trials decisive
of the victory and defeat of the revolution and its advance and setback
into great upswings of the revolution, and our revolution has achieved a
great success whenever an upswing was effected in ideological work.
The Third Conference of Ideological Workers of the Workers' Party of
Korea, which was held 40 years ago and where the great General
proclaimed modelling the whole society on Kimilsungism as the maximum
programme of our Party, is of special importance in the history of our
Party that has opened a pivotal phase of the revolution on the strength
of ideology.
That the General defined Kimilsungism as the guiding ideology of our
Party and proclaimed modelling the whole society on that ideology as
the maximum programme of our Party was a political event that clearly
indicated the road for bringing the final victory of the Korean
revolution closer and roused all the service personnel and people to
achieving it.
The historic advance for modelling the whole society on Kimilsungism
gave birth to a powerful political General Staff that has achieved
oneness in ideology and leadership for the first time in the history of
building a revolutionary party, to invincible revolutionary armed forces
that march with the red flag of the Workers' Party as its first
standard and to militant ranks united single-heartedly.
History clearly shows how a powerful country, which is independent,
self-sufficient and self-reliant in national defence, has been built on
this land where worship of big countries and dogmatism were rooted deep
and a socialist fortress created, which remains unperturbed in the face
of worldwide political upheaval and the imperialists' vicious moves for
isolation and suffocation.
Today mankind is studying the great Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism to
search for the road ahead of them. In every place of the globe the
ideology centred on the masses, the revolutionary theory of
independence, has become the spirit and banner of struggle of the people
who aspire after genuine freedom and happiness.
Endless is the glory our service personnel and people enjoy for
having waged the revolution for scores of years along the road indicated
by the great ideology and in the country which is admired by the whole
world and which gave birth to the ideology guiding the era of
independence.
To hasten the final victory of the Korean revolution keeping up the
banner of the great Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism is their faith and will
and the wish of the times and history.
We must hold aloft modelling the whole society on
Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism as the maximum programme of the Party and
accomplish the Korean revolution without fail on the strength of
ideology, on the strength of single-hearted unity.
The standard-bearers in the effort to model the entire Party and the
whole society on Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism are ideological workers.
The success of not only the effort to transform all the members of
society into advocates of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism but the effort to
transform all realms of social life as required by
Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism depends on the success of ideological work.
You should ruminate once again on the deep reason why the General
convened the conference of ideological workers and proclaimed in front
of the Party information workers from across the country the programme
of modelling the whole society on Kimilsungism.
We should spark off a struggle on the ideological front of the Party
first and heighten the intensity of ideological work, so as to
remarkably quicken the onward march of our revolution for modelling the
whole society on Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism.
We have rich experiences of having forcefully propelled the historic
march for modelling the whole society on Kimilsungism by dint of an
intensive ideological offensive, and powerful forces and means of
information and motivation work with which to stir up the whole country
at once.
To hasten the final victory of the revolution by holding higher the
ideological theory of Juche, a powerful weapon–this is the main spirit
of this conference.
In view of the demands of the reality when modelling the whole
society on Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism poses itself as the general task of
the ideological work of our Party, the Party Central Committee advances
the slogan, "Let Us Hasten the Final Victory through a Revolutionary
Ideological Offensive!" before the Eighth Conference of Ideological
Workers of the Workers' Party of Korea.
Firmly believing that all the participants in the conference and
other ideological workers across the Party, aware of their honour and
responsibility as the ideological standard-bearers in the effort to
accomplish the cause of modelling the whole society on
Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism, will give fullest play to the strength of our
Party's revolutionary ideology and the inexhaustible mental strength of
all the service personnel and people, I would like to speak about some
problems arising in the sector of the Party's ideological work at
present.
First of all, we should concentrate all efforts in the Party's
ideological work on firmly establishing the Party's monolithic
leadership system.
The objective of our effort to establish the Party's monolithic
leadership system across the Party and society is to consolidate the
unity and cohesion of the Party, the political General Staff of the
revolution, and its fighting efficiency in all aspects, implement the
instructions of the President and the General to the letter and realize
our people's dreams and ideals at an earlier date.
Now is a crucial period when we have to break through the ordeals
facing the revolution by rallying the service personnel and people more
firmly around the Party and channel their patriotic enthusiasm, wisdom
and resourcefulness to the utmost into stepping up the building of a
thriving country.
The ideological system and leadership system for carrying out this
historic task most scrupulously and perfectly is none other than the
Party's monolithic leadership system.
The ideological work of our Party must naturally proceed from its
basic task in the present period and direct its main effort to
implementing it.
However, Party organizations are now revealing tendencies of paying
only lip service to the work of establishing the Party's monolithic
leadership system and engrossing themselves in paper work in this
regard.
Although a Party-wide discussion of the documents on establishing
the Party's monolithic leadership system was conducted and many study
sessions, public lectures and oath-taking meetings held, they failed to
detect and crush in advance the modern version of factionalist group
which had formed within the Party.
Although there are our Party's great revolutionary ideology and
absolutely correct lines and policies, Party organizations and excellent
people, a factionalist group appeared within the Party again. Our
ideological workers are partly to blame for this.
The identity of the modern version of factionalist group is that it
was an ideologically degenerate entity which was outwardly overcome with
fear for the pressure by the imperialists and inwardly contaminated
with bourgeois ideology and culture.
The factionalist practice of challenging the Party's monolithic
leadership system originates in ideological degeneration, and the
renegades of ideology are bound to oppose the Party and the revolution
in the long run.
Imbuing the Party and revolutionary ranks with one ideology–this is
the seed and core of the effort for establishing the Party's monolithic
leadership system.
The objective of the revolutionary ideological offensive for
establishing the Party's monolithic leadership system is to make the
great Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism and its embodiment, the Party's lines
and policies, an element of unshakeable conviction of the masses of the
people.
The revolutionary ideology of our Party has accorded with the
aspirations and demands of the masses at all times, and there is no line
and policy of the Party which they cannot understand and accept.
A breakthrough should be made in the ideological offensive by
beginning with raising another strong wind across the Party of studying
to be well versed in the immortal works of the President and the General
and the documents of the Party, a library of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism.
The works and documents are excellent textbooks for the education in
the one and only ideology and a great encyclopaedia which comprehends
our Party's lines and policies.
If they study them in a chronological order and in a systematic way,
all Party members, other working people and service personnel can equip
themselves firmly with the Juche idea, Songun idea, Kim Jong Il's
patriotism, the revolutionary traditions of our Party and class
awareness and fully understand the lines and policies newly advanced by
the Party.
What is important is to carry on the education work in a scrupulous
manner so that everybody can be well-versed in the instructions the
President and the General gave to their sectors and units and the
Party's policies and make them a creed in their work and life.
It is necessary to explain to the masses the Party's policies for a
given period in a logical and convincing way so that they can sympathize
with them and accept them as their own by themselves. You should pay
attention to informing people in easy terms of what they are eager to
know and hear on the basis of the Party's policies and in the way you
tell a thirsty person where he or she can drink water.
In the future, if everybody at a unit is as well informed of the
Party's lines and policies as they are of their family affairs, the unit
will be considered to have conducted ideological work efficiently and
established the monolithic leadership system.
"Exceptions" must never be permitted in ideological work.
As a saying goes that even a rolling stone may gather moss, one is
bound to degenerate when treated exceptionally. There may be some
special tasks assigned by the Party, but "exceptions" cannot exist
within our Party who are allowed to neglect their ideological life and
be ignorant of its lines and policies. As for special units, ideological
work should be strengthened further and they should be made
steel-strong in the furnace of ideological struggle.
Ideological workers should be able to discern something alien, if
any, at a glance at the eyes of others. They must use the ideological
"scalpel" in time to root out the causes of such misdemeanors as arguing
over the issues decided by the Party, undermining its leadership
exploits covertly or overtly and breeding corruption within our ranks in
contravention of our Party's and class principles.
It is important to conduct the work of imbuing the Party and
revolutionary ranks with one ideology in close combination with the
practical struggle.
Man's ideology is expressed in his practice and its outcome, rather
than in his revolutionary rhetoric or pledge. He is a man armed with the
Party's ideology as an element of his faith, who, though seldom
speaking, carries out the plans and decisions of the Party Central
Committee on the schedule set and the level demanded by it.
Endeavouring to implement the ideology of the Party and champion its
policies–this is the clearest manifestation of one's loyalty to it and
an important occasion to have the validity of its lines and policies as
an element of one's faith.
The soldier-builders, who carried out their project on Masik Pass
successfully last year, were determined to wage a death-defying struggle
not to delay even for a moment the completion date proclaimed to the
world by the Party Central Committee; they performed a miraculous feat
of completing the project in one year, which was estimated to take ten,
thus staunchly defending the prestige of the Party.
The on-site political work of the People's Army, which was a
three-dimensional and offensive-style ideological work to inspire
everyone from generals to privates with a single desire of fulfilling
their Supreme Commander's order, serves as a good example in the
ideological offensive to establish the Party's monolithic leadership
system.
In implementing the instructions of the President and the General,
the Party's new line of developing the two fronts simultaneously and its
policies, all sectors and all units should make an ideological analysis
and review of their failures and the causes for them. Then they should
press on with the frontline-style information and motivation campaign to
learn from the service personnel's spirit of carrying out their tasks
even at the cost of their lives.
The main targets of the ideological offensive for establishing the
Party's monolithic leadership system are the wrong ideological viewpoint
and work attitude of the officials who give verbal support to the
Party's policies but do not implement them immediately.
It is urgent to combat the ideological maladies of the officials who
remain indifferent to the obstacles lying in the way of implementation
of the Party's policies for their own sectors, units and regions, as
well as to the difficulties facing the people in their living. The
ideological education and campaign aimed at rooting out such undesirable
ideological elements as defeatism, self-preservation, formalism,
expediency, irresponsibility and self-centredness should be conducted
with an appropriate methodology. The information and organization
sectors of the Party should be scrupulous in working in close
cooperation with each other, while the ideological campaign should be
combined with legal actions to maximize its efficiency.
The soaring mental spirit of our service personnel and people, who,
after liquidating the modern version of factionalist group, have
hardened up their determination to follow the Party Central Committee
invariably along the long road of revolution, should be fanned to flare
up into flames of a great revolutionary upsurge.
Historically speaking, great victory was won in the Fatherland
Liberation War after the purge of an anti-Party, counterrevolutionary
factionalist clique following the Fifth Plenary Meeting of the Party
Central Committee; the Chollima upswing was brought about in the course
of eliminating the August 1956 factionalist group; and world-startling
successes were achieved in the showdown with the United States and the
socialist industrialization drive after the anti-Party revisionists were
exposed and purged at the 15th Plenary Meeting of the Fourth Party
Central Committee.
The Party's ideological front should actively encourage all Party
members and other working people to follow in their forerunners'
footsteps and become standard-bearers and meritorious workers in the
struggle to champion the Party Central Committee by bringing about a
revolutionary upsurge.
If all service personnel and people, rallied firmly around the
Party, make substantial progress in socialist construction, those who
are wavering for lack of confidence will be brought to their senses and
the monolithic leadership system of the Party will be established
solidly across the Party and society.
Another important task facing the ideological work of our Party is
to raise a strong wind of ideological campaign to give an impetus to the
struggle for defending socialism.
In the present era, as in the past, socialism represents the ideals
of mankind, and it is an irreversible trend of the times.
We are now following the untrodden path of history as we risk the
dignity of our independent people and the destiny of socialism in the
struggle to repulse the imperialists' frantic attacks. Today the path of
socialism and the inevitability of its victory depend on the struggle
of the Korean revolutionaries.
In performing this honourable mission our Party and people have
assumed for history, ideological workers, the red, hardcore elements of
the Party, should become undying torchlight and loud bugles.
They should give Party members and other working people a clear
understanding of the essence and character of the present struggle to
defend socialism.
In the struggle we waged in defence of socialism in the 90s of the
last century, we created a historic miracle of safeguarding our ideology
and system against the allied imperialist forces' moves to isolate and
stifle our country.
The ongoing struggle to defend socialism can be said to be aimed at
prevailing over imperialism in all fields of social life by
consolidating the victories and successes achieved so far and giving
fullest play to the advantages and might of socialism.
Recently, our Party has put forward both the agricultural and
scientific fronts as outposts for defending socialism. Its intention is
to constantly remind our people that not only on the frontline where
guns are levelled at each other but also in all other places where they
live, they are engaged in invisible, fierce confrontation and
competition against imperialists. If we, resting on our laurels and
praising ourselves, do not give spur to the revolution and construction
and thus fail to bring real benefits to the people, such socialism is
doomed to lose its appeal.
We should build a thriving country at an early date by giving
fullest play to the advantages and might of socialism, which capitalism
can never imitate nor possess, so as to make socialism as different in
all respects from capitalism as heaven is from earth.
A vigorous ideological campaign should be launched to demonstrate
the might of great army-people unity on a higher level in building a
thriving country.
The solid single-hearted unity of the army and people around the
Party constitutes the cornerstone of our style of socialism and the
great foundation in building a thriving nation. The eye-opening miracles
which have been wrought recently in succession, shaking the land,
mountains and rivers throughout the country are all fruition born of the
great unity between the service personnel and people, their concerted
efforts.
The People’s Army should, in the future, too, be the prime mover and
pioneer in strengthening this great army-people unity. It should
intensify information and motivation work geared to giving full play to
the might of an army strong in ideology both in national defence and
socialist construction. Party organizations and political organs in the
army should ceaselessly create such terms of our era as the "Masikryong
speed" by carrying forward the proud history of the revolutionary army
which has proved with its indomitable revolutionary spirit that Korea's
determination is just its materialization and reality, and civilian
Party organizations should accelerate the work of learning from the
revolutionary spirit and fighting style of the service personnel.
When the time comes when we have to fight an all-out life-and-death
fight with the enemy, we should achieve its final victory on the
strength of the great army-people unity, all-people resistance, based on
the revolutionary soldier spirit.
All sectors and all units should launch a dynamic ideological
offensive so as to make the flames of collective innovations flare up.
Our people have already gained a valuable experience of ushering in a
heyday in socialist construction through an all-people, collective
innovation movement in the 1970s, a decade of great changes.
In the 1970s when the country was resounding with the drumbeats of
revolution and the bugle sounds for speed campaign, they brought about
grandiose creation and changes unprecedented in the history of their
country, while militarily coping with the large-scale war exercises
staged by the US imperialists. It was during those days that our country
abolished the taxation system for the first time in the world, enforced
a universal 11-year compulsory education and rendered a colossal amount
of assistance to the developing countries and the fighting peoples of
the world.
It is the intention of our Party to carry on the building of an
economic giant and a civilized state by bringing into play the might of
socialism, the might of collectivism, as in the 1970s.
The flames of the movement of winning the title of O Jung Hup-led
7th Regiment and the three-revolution red flag movement should flare up
more fiercely in the military and civilian units, respectively, and
vigorous socialist emulation drives be launched among sectors, units and
regions and by stages: by doing so, we should ensure that a strong wind
of collective competition sweep the whole country.
At present our Party demands that all the military and civilian
sectors create model units and, with them as the initial spark, kindle
the flames of joint innovations. Ideological workers should pay
attention to enlisting the creative zeal and activeness of the masses
both in creating such units that advance ahead of the times and in
organizing competition for overtaking them.
An ideological campaign against the abuse of authority and
bureaucratism should be intensified to make all officials props that,
sharing weal and woe with the masses, unite their collectives and
reliable point-men in the mass innovation movement.
Efforts should be channelled into the information and motivation
work for bringing into full play the spirit of self-reliance whose might
has fully been attested in the severe trials of history.
We can say that the whole history of socialism of our own style
boils down to self-reliance. In the days of building socialism by their
own efforts, our Party and people underwent unprecedented ordeals and
difficulties, but they were loaded with all honours they could not enjoy
through the history of their nation spanning thousands of years. Had we
abandoned the principle of self-reliance succumbing to the pressure by
outside forces, the Juche-oriented socialism would not have been born on
the earth and the name of our country would have suffered eclipse along
with the collapse of the worldwide socialist system. On the track of
self-reliance Chollima rose up on the ruins of war and such a miracle as
the birth of a manufacturer and launcher of an earth satellite and
nuclear state was wrought, a miracle of great significance in the
national history.
Ideological workers should intensify education by means of the
history of our socialist construction among officials and working people
to clearly implant in them that self-reliance is the path of building a
thriving nation.
Self-reliance is the spirit of national self-sustenance and the
spirit of going beyond the cutting edge to lead the whole world with our
efforts, with our resources and with our technology. It is necessary to
steadily succeed the fighting spirit with which we made tractor and
electric locomotive from scratch and the spirit with which we conquered
space with our efforts and technology. We should undertake an
information and motivation offensive to ensure that everyone turns out
in the campaign to make everything of our country the assets of
socialism that cannot be found elsewhere in the world, fully conscious
that they must go beyond the cutting edge just in their own posts and
workplaces. We should ideologically support the efforts to make a breach
in imperialist manoeuvres to monopolize high technology, and make
advanced science and technology our own.
It is important to actively encourage scientists and technicians to
firmly defend their revolutionary positions in the grand march of
self-reliance which is led by the locomotive, called "science and
technology." Ideological workers should play a great role in creating
the climate of attaching importance to science throughout society and
making all people well-versed in science and technology.
We must launch an information offensive to ideologically and morally
overpower the imperialist reactionary forces who are trying to stamp
out socialism by all means.
Now the imperialists are hell-bent on a smear campaign to turn black
into white and persisting in their attempts to infiltrate corrupt
reactionary ideology and culture into our country with our service
personnel and young people as the target, while clinging to manoeuvres
to apply sanctions against our country and stifle it. Whereas the
reactionary ideology and culture were their guide to aggression in the
past, they are playing a leading part in aggression at present.
The struggle to defend socialism should be an offensive operation
to, outwardly, gain political and ideological upper hand over the
imperialists that hinder our onward movement and, inwardly, sweep up
non-socialist practices and decadent ideology and culture by means of
the revolutionary ideology and culture.
Ideological workers should dishearten the enemy by launching a
skilful anti-enemy media warfare, radio warfare, which is aimed at
giving wide publicity to the validity of our ideology and cause and at
laying bare the vulnerability and foul nature of imperialists. They
should make ideological "missiles" in larger numbers that can deal a
heavy blow at the enemy and instil firm confidence in victory in our
service personnel and people.
They should take the initiative in launching operations to make the
imperialist moves for ideological and cultural infiltration end in
smoke, while putting up "mosquito net" double and treble to prevent the
viruses of capitalist ideology which the enemy is persistently
attempting to spread from infiltrating across our border.
By nature, the working masses reject the bourgeois ideology and
culture which preach the money-is-almighty principle and the law of
jungle. We need to create and propagate larger numbers of wholesome and
revolutionary works of art and literature, articles and presentations of
our own style which contain the beautiful dreams and ideals of the
masses and which brim over with national flavour, so as to make the
people turn their backs on the bourgeois ideology and culture of their
own accord. A decisive measure should be taken to use the Internet as a
medium for giving publicity to our ideology and culture in order to cope
with the enemy's moves to widely propagate their reactionary ideology
and culture by misusing the latest scientific and technological
achievements made by mankind.
The sector of ideological work and related units should work out
elaborate plans for putting mass media and external publicity means on a
modern and IT basis and make persevering efforts to carry them out.
The ideological work of the Party should be conducted in an aggressive manner.
Our Party's strategy and tactics in ideological work is to make the
whole country seethe with a revolutionary leap forward by making the
flames of ideological offensive flare up fiercely in the attack spirit
of advancing against all odds.
The ideological position of our Party should be arranged in the form for attack, not for defence.
We should also conduct the ideological education aimed at imbuing
the whole society with the red ideology of the Workers' Party in a
proactive way, the political work aimed at calling forth the mental
strength of all the service personnel and people as it is done on the
frontline and the struggle to sweep away all shades of evil ideas and
spirits at a lightning speed.
In order to conduct ideological work in an aggressive manner, it is
necessary, above all, to root out the defeatist view revealed among
ideological workers.
The ideological workers infected with such a view cannot take even a
single step by themselves even if they are put forward in the van of
the ideological offensive.
The "Yongil bomb spirit" created in the forest of Mt. Paektu and the
do-or-die resistance spirit of Xiaowangqing and Chechangzi were not
produced in ordinary days, and the legend of Chollima, the miracles of
the speed campaign, the revolutionary soldier spirit and the Kanggye
spirit were not born under more favourable circumstances than in the
present days.
Comrades,
Defeatism in ideological work is more dangerous than that in
economic work. The present ideological offensive must start with ridding
ideological workers of defeatism.
Those engaged in ideological work in the birthplace of the Juche
idea must not wait for a miracle to be wrought, but go purposefully
amongst people carrying the weapon of ideology and become active doers
and devoted creators who find solutions with them.
The posts of national defence, factories, farm villages and other
places where you are working bear the imprints of examples of
outstanding art of leadership set by the peerlessly great men who found
in the simple opinions of the service personnel and people the best
method of turning misfortune into a blessing and adversity into
prosperity.
If you work with the history of revolutionary leadership of the
President and the General as a textbook, you will find nothing you
cannot understand and overcome in your work, and our Party's ideological
work become literally an initial spark for kindling the flames of a
leap forward.
In order to ensure a revolutionary ideological offensive a success,
we should open the gunfire of an ideological campaign and fire the
shells concentratedly, successively and at the right targets.
First of all, by enlisting all the forces and means already provided
for information and motivational purposes, you should conduct
ideological work in a flexible and intensive way.
When the Party puts forward a new line or policy, all the networks
of education, public lecture and motivation work and mass media should
be mobilized promptly to inform all the people, ranging from officials
at the central organs to farmers in remote, mountainous villages, of it.
The contents, forms, means and methods of ideological work should, to
all intents and purposes, be geared and subordinated to carrying out
revolutionary tasks. The forces and means for information and motivation
work should be concentrated on the projects the Party attaches
importance to, thus strongly beating the drum for kindling the fire of a
fresh leap forward.
Ideological work should also ensure that all shades of evil ideas
and spirits never make inroads into our ranks by giving uninterrupted
publicity to the Party's intentions and leading a continuous advance of
the ideological struggle.
It can be likened to removing falling snow on the runway by snow
blower to prevent it from piling up. Ideological work should be
conducted not like a flash in the pan and in the way a ceremony is held,
but in a regular way regardless of time and place so that people can
imbibe the Party's ideas the way they breathe air. An ideological
campaign should be conducted without letup and intensively to sweep away
alien ideological trends and lifestyles. To be strictly guarded against
here is the repetition of the stereotyped speech and method.
It is also important to select the right targets of the ideological
offensive based on an understanding of their preparedness,
characteristics and ideological tendencies, and apply appropriate means
and methods.
President Kim Il Sung
already said that work with people should be conducted in the way a
mother does, as she uses different words when teaching her eldest son
and youngest son though they are of the same blood. If the employees of
their units number ten thousand, ideological workers should know the
inner thought of each of them like their own palms and work with them
with ten thousand methods.
The road of our revolution is not smooth, and every revolutionary
front requires genuine and well-qualified ideological workers who have
cherished the staunch revolutionary spirit in their hearts.
In fact, the forces of our Party’s information workers and primary
information workers enrolled in the networks of education, public
lecture and motivation work are great. If they, numbering tens of
thousands, are well prepared, we can form an elite corps and if we have
such a contingency, we will have nothing to be afraid of and out of
reach of our strength.
Of his revolutionary soldiers, the great General treasured and loved
most dearly those who are defending the ideological front, and led and
encouraged them at every step, saying that a film or an article is as
powerful as several thousand tons of food grain or tens of thousands of
gun shells.
The ideological workers of our Party have assumed a heavy task.
Each of them should become a person strong in ideas and faith, whom
the enemy fear more than they do the forces of a division or a corps.
Although simple and modest in appearance they always burn their
hearts with the Party's intentions and are enthusiastic for the
revolution and struggle–this is the feature our Party thinks ideal for
information workers. Ideological workers should be true revolutionaries
who never give up the Party's principle of ideological work in any
adversity. They should have the passion of covering long distance in one
night to inform people of the Party's intentions and burning the
midnight oil for several days to study the Party's policies and learn
knowledge and technology.
Having a proper outlook on people is a vital requirement for ideological workers who have to make them open their minds.
The information workers of our Party should be true sons and
daughters of people who learn from the latter before teaching them and
highly appreciate their efforts. To this end, they should remember first
whenever they approach them that they stand before the great people
whom the President and the General believed as in heaven and regarded as
their teachers all their lives.
Love and respect for the labouring people emanate from the spirit of
loving labour. Our officials should mingle with the masses, their hands
stained with grease and their shoes with earth, and be proud of it.
The President and the General performed great exploits for people all their lives, but left nothing for themselves.
Regarding the ideas and trust of the Party as the wealth of their
lives, ideological workers should find the worth of living in informing
as many persons as possible of the Party's policies and having
collective innovations brought about at the units under their charge. A
genuine ideological worker is the person who values more than nuggets
of gold the excitement he or she feels when people are eager anytime to
be informed of the Party's intentions and when they support the Party's
policies with all their hearts.
When the Party's intentions are informed and revolutionary songs and
hurrah for the Workers' Party and socialism resound wherever our
Party's ideological workers go, it will be a great encouragement to the
Party.
The entire Party should become information and motivation workers, and all officials should conduct political work.
Whether they are Party, administrative, economic or primary
officials, they should hold it as the main key to motivate the mental
strength of the masses, and direct due efforts to it. In particular,
chief secretaries of provincial, city and county Party committees and
senior Party officials of all sectors and all units should put the
ideological work under their personal control and conduct it with all
sincerity and with much effort.
In the 1970s all the officials, under the leadership of the Party,
used to go down to their subordinate units with rucksacks on their backs
like the anti-Japanese guerrillas had done, rouse people as required by
the Chongsan-ri spirit and Chongsan-ri method and bring about
innovations. This vibrant spirit should prevail throughout the country.
Comrades,
The revolutionary task facing us are enormous and the situation
remains as severe as ever. However, we should leap forward to bring the
future closer and make a ceaseless advance while struggling.
As soon as you leave the venue of this conference, you should go
amongst the service personnel and people to inform them of the intention
of the Party Central Committee and take up the starting positions of
ideological offensive with a fresh determination.
I stress once again: The more vibrantly the ideological front
seethes, the more fully the mental strength of the masses will be
demonstrated, and the more the service personnel and people are roused,
the faster the revolution will advance.
I firmly believe that all our ideological workers, including the
participants in this conference, will become political workers of the
type of the great Comrades Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il
and make the whole country seethe and transform the entire army along
revolutionary lines, thus hastening the final victory. -0-

Pyongyang, February 27 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Uk, an agent of the south
Korean Intelligence Service (IS) who had been arrested while illegally
intruding into the DPRK, was interviewed by domestic and foreign media
persons at the People's Palace of Culture Thursday.
Present there were media persons of the DPRK and the General
Association of Korean Residents in Japan and foreign correspondents and
staff members of foreign missions here.
Overseas compatriots staying in the socialist motherland were present there as observers.
Kim Jong Uk spoke first.
He confessed to the crimes committed by him against the DPRK,
recalling that he illegally intruded into it by a smuggling boat from
Dandong of China at night of October 7 last year and made an overland
trip to Pyongyang but was arrested by security men at dawn of the next
day before being put under investigation by a relevant organ.
He went on:
At the instructions of the IS, I perpetrated anti-DPRK espionage and religious activities.
Prompted by the idea of bringing down the present government and
political system in order to build a "Christian" country in the north, I
introduced and mediated persons from the north as helpers after
receiving money from the IS.
Moreover, I set up an underground church in Dandong and brought
there people from the north and gathered confidential information about
the north by letting them write stories about it or having conversations
with them before providing it to the IS.
I made a sermon to insult the north's political system before people
from the north and let them have prayer meetings or write stories
hurting it. I also egged them on to conduct dissident actions before
south Korean and American visitors to Dandong.
Giving them money, I gave them the task to build an "underground
church", telling them if "churches" are built wherever there are statues
including Mansu Hill and 500 "underground churches" set up in all parts
of the north in the future, the north's political system would collapse
and there would appear a God-blessed country.
Confessing to his acts of whisking off "defectors from the north" to the south, Kim said:
In October 2008, I attempted to whisk off four "defectors from the
north" introduced by a reverend working at a human rights organization
of south Korea, but I was stopped from taking them away to a third
country. I was set free after paying fine.
I whisked off six Chinese residents from the north to south Korea
via a third country and sent to the south Jon Yong Chol, north Korean
who was on a private business trip, from the underground church operated
by himself.
I lured inhabitants of the north to my underground church and made them corrupt ideologically and morally.
I installed a TV set in a rented house which was operating as an
underground church so that north Koreans might watch south Korean
satellite TV programs, brought there hundreds of anti-DPRK books for
their brainwashing. I also egged them on to vie with each other to
slander the political system and policies of the north.
I let them watch more than 100 channels including CBS and sex
channel over satellite TV. In addition to this, I brought there
religious magazines peppered with diaries written by "defectors from the
north" and stories hurling mud at the leadership and social system in
the north so that they might read them all the time.
Kim admitted that all the acts perpetrated by him are crimes
wantonly violating the law of the DPRK and human rights of its citizens.
He admitted in the course of being questioned by a judicial organ of
the DPRK that he committed such crimes, prompted by the inveterate
hostility toward it he nurtured while receiving anti-communist education
from his early years. He added that he realized all what he has done is
foolish things helpful only to outside forces seeking the permanent
division of the Korean nation and conservative forces and it is nothing
beneficial to the interests of the nation.
Noting even at this moment many "anti-north" missionaries and those
tasked to allure its citizens are perpetrating acts similar to what was
done by him at the instruction of the IS in the areas of China adjacent
to the northern border of the DPRK, he continued:
Availing myself of this opportunity, I hope the conservative forces
including the IS that are abusing even religionists out of bad blood
toward their compatriots in the north and the "anti-north" missionaries
who have committed acts of treachery at the former's beck and call,
would draw a lesson from what I have done and correct their wrong
doings, though belatedly.
I would like to frankly confess before dozens of inhabitants of the
DPRK who committed inadvertent crimes due to me that all what I said and
did in China in the past are sheer lies and criminal acts and
apologize to them for my wrong doings.
Then he answered the questions raised by reporters.
He mentioned in detail how he illegally crossed the border of the DPRK and its course.
He, at the same time, gave a detailed account of the objective of
his illegal entry into the DPRK and his aim to use those things
contained in his luggage.
He noted his objective was to set up a "head office of the dissident
underground church network" in Pyongyang that would be used for
misleading the mindset of the people and bringing down the present
government and political system in the DPRK when the time comes and
produce films about the situation in the north and activities of
"underground church" and send them to the south Korean church and the
IS.
Things he brought with him when crossing the border include Bibles,
memory card, 100 MP 3s, medicines, foodstuffs, ultra-mini camera and 40
sex CDs.
He said memory card contained "Christian" movies, memoirs telling
that underground churches played a great role in bringing down socialism
in the East European countries, Bible explanation, hymn and so on while
those MP 3s contained serial dramas produced on the basis of the book
slandering "human rights issues " in the north, collections of Bible
sermons and so on.
Various kinds of medicines and foodstuffs he had brought with him
were meant for distributing them among devotees and the ultra-mini
camera was aimed to photograph some places of Pyongyang, activities of
the "underground church" and the site for the "church". Sex CDs were
meant for letting devotees to copy and sell them on black markets for
the purpose of distributing them among many people.
He answered the questions put by correspondents of Russia, China and Japan.
The participants watched videos proving Kim's crimes against the DPRK. -0-

Kim Jong Un
in his speech made at the 8th Conference of Ideological Workers of the
Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) stressed that the one and only weapon for
the Korean revolution that made its start empty-handed was a great
revolutionary ideology.
Recalling that the revolutionaries of Korea rallied comrades and
obtained weapons on the strength of the ideology; and on its strength
they defeated imperialist powers and built a prospering socialism, he
continued:
The whole course of the Korean revolution can be called a history of
ideological work to give fullest play to the might of the truth of the
revolutionary ideology of President Kim Il Sung and General Kim Jong Il.
In our revolution ideological work has always been the most
important work, and a great tradition of ideological work was created in
its first days.
Thanks to the wise leadership of the President and the General, who
gave definite priority to ideological work and resolved all problems by
enlisting the mental strength of the masses of the people in the whole
course of their leadership of the Korean revolution, the revolution
could etch only victory in its flag although it blazed the trail of
history. By bringing about high tides in the mental strength of the
service personnel and people, our Party has turn the trials decisive of
the victory and defeat of the revolution and its advance and setback
into great upswings of the revolution, and our revolution has achieved a
great success whenever an upswing was effected in ideological work.
The Third Conference of Ideological Workers of the WPK, which was
held 40 years ago and where the great General proclaimed modeling the
whole society on Kimilsungism as the maximum programme of our Party, is
of special importance in the history of our Party that has opened a
pivotal phase of the revolution on the strength of ideology.
That the General defined Kimilsungism as the guiding ideology of our
Party and proclaimed modeling the whole society on that ideology as the
maximum programme of our Party was a political event that clearly
indicated the road for bringing the final victory of the Korean
revolution closer and roused all the service personnel and people to
achieving it.
The historic advance for modeling the whole society on Kimilsungism
gave birth to a powerful political General Staff that has achieved
oneness in ideology and leadership for the first time in the history of
building a revolutionary party, to invincible revolutionary armed forces
that march with the red flag of the Workers’ Party as its first
standard and to militant ranks united single-heartedly.
History clearly shows how a powerful country, which is independent,
self-sufficient and self-reliant in national defence, has been built on
this land where worship of big countries and dogmatism were rooted deep
and a socialist fortress created, which remains unperturbed in the face
of worldwide political upheaval and the imperialists’ vicious moves for
isolation and suffocation. -0-

Pyongyang, February 27 (KCNA) -- Supreme leader Kim Jong Un made a speech at the 8th Conference of Ideological Workers of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK).
Referring to the importance of the ideological work, he said that
the whole course of the Korean revolution can be called a history of
ideological work to give fullest play to the might of the truth of the
revolutionary ideology of President Kim Il Sung and General Kim Jong Il.
To hasten the final victory of the revolution by holding higher the
ideological theory of Juche, a powerful weapon–this is the main spirit
of this conference, he said, and went on:
In view of the demands of the reality when modelling the whole
society on Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism poses itself as the general task of
the ideological work of our Party, the Party Central Committee advances
the slogan, "Let us hasten the final victory through a revolutionary
ideological offensive!" before the Eighth Conference of Ideological
Workers of the Workers' Party of Korea.
He clarified some problems arising in the field of the Party’s ideological work at present.
He said:
We should concentrate all efforts in the Party's ideological work on
firmly establishing the Party's monolithic leadership system.
Imbuing the Party and revolutionary ranks with one ideology–this is
the seed and core of the effort for establishing the Party's monolithic
leadership system.
The objective of the revolutionary ideological offensive for
establishing the Party’s monolithic leadership system is to make the
great Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism and its embodiment, the Party's lines
and policies, an element of unshakeable conviction of the masses of the
people.
A breakthrough should be made in the ideological offensive by
beginning with raising another strong wind across the Party of studying
to be well versed in the immortal works of the President and the General
and the documents of the Party, a library of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism.
It is important to conduct the work of imbuing the Party and
revolutionary ranks with one ideology in close combination with the
practical struggle.
Another important task facing the ideological work of our Party is
to raise a strong wind of ideological campaign to give an impetus to the
struggle for defending socialism.
We should give Party members and other working people a clear
understanding of the essence and character of the present struggle to
defend socialism.
We should build a thriving country at an early date by giving
fullest play to the advantages and might of socialism, which capitalism
can never imitate nor possess, so as to make socialism as different in
all respects from capitalism as heaven is from earth.
A vigorous ideological campaign should be launched to demonstrate
the might of great army-people unity on a higher level in building a
thriving country.
All sectors and all units should launch a dynamic ideological
offensive so as to make the flames of collective innovations flare up.
Efforts should be channelled into the information and motivation
work for bringing into full play the spirit of self-reliance whose might
has fully been attested in the severe trials of history.
We should ideologically support the efforts to make a breach in
imperialist manoeuvres to monopolize high technology, and make advanced
science and technology our own.
We must launch an information offensive to ideologically and morally
overpower the imperialist reactionary forces who are trying to stamp
out socialism by all means.
The sector of ideological work and related units should work out
elaborate plans for putting mass media and external publicity means on a
modern and IT basis and make persevering efforts to carry them out.
The ideological work of the Party should be conducted in an aggressive manner.
We should also conduct the ideological education aimed at imbuing
the whole society with the red ideology of the Workers' Party in a
proactive way, the political work aimed at calling forth the mental
strength of all the service personnel and people as it is done on the
frontline and the struggle to sweep away all shades of evil ideas and
spirits at a lightning speed.
Those engaged in ideological work in the birthplace of the Juche
idea must not wait for a miracle to be wrought, but go purposefully
amongst people carrying the weapon of ideology and become active doers
and devoted creators who find solutions with them.
In order to ensure a revolutionary ideological offensive a success,
we should open the gunfire of an ideological campaign and fire the
shells concentratedly, successively and at the right targets.
The road of our revolution is not smooth, and every revolutionary
front requires genuine and well-qualified ideological workers who have
cherished the staunch revolutionary spirit in their hearts.
Although simple and modest in appearance they always burn their
hearts with the Party's intentions and are enthusiastic for the
revolution and struggle–this is the feature our Party thinks ideal for
information workers. Ideological workers should have the passion of
covering long distance in one night to inform people of the Party’s
intentions and burning the midnight oil for several days to study the
Party’s policies and learn knowledge and technology.
The information workers of our Party should be true sons and
daughters of people who learn from the latter before teaching them and
highly appreciate their efforts.
Regarding the ideas and trust of the Party as the wealth of their
lives, ideological workers should find the worth of living in informing
as many persons as possible of the Party’s policies and having
collective innovations brought about at the units under their charge.
When the Party's intentions are informed and revolutionary songs and
hurrah for the Workers' Party and socialism resound wherever our
Party’s ideological workers go, it will be a great encouragement to the
Party.
The entire Party should become information and motivation workers, and all officials should conduct political work.
In the 1970s all the officials, under the leadership of the Party,
used to go down to their subordinate units with rucksacks on their backs
like the anti-Japanese guerrillas had done, rouse people as required by
the Chongsan-ri spirit and Chongsan-ri method and bring about
innovations. This vibrant spirit should prevail throughout the country.
The more vibrantly the ideological front seethes, the more fully the
mental strength of the masses will be demonstrated, and the more the
service personnel and people are roused, the faster the revolution will
advance.
I firmly believe that all our ideological workers, including the
participants in this conference, will become political workers of the
type of the great Comrades Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il
and make the whole country seethe and transform the entire army along
revolutionary lines, thus hastening the final victory. -0-

Wednesday, 26 February 2014

Pyongyang, February 26 (KCNA) -- Sweet potato has been widely accepted by the foodstuff-processing factories in the DPRK.
Among the foodstuffs made from sweet potato is a kind of ice cream.
In this regard, So Ok Jin, a researcher of the Commerce Science Institute, told KCNA:
Sweet potato has the effect of activating metabolism and lowering
cholesterol in human body. And it is efficacious against hypertension,
cardiovascular diseases and cancer.
It is rich in starch and sugar and strong in viscosity.
The institute has developed a new kind of ice cream preserving the properties of sweet potato.
As the ice cream is mainly made from sweet potato, it can be easily
prepared with less sugar and flavors. Its production method has been
already put on a scientific basis and standardized.
Kim Hyang, living in Phyongchon District, Pyongyang, said that the ice cream is tastier than others for its peculiar flavor.
Researchers say that the ice cream will enjoy popularity among people. -0

Pyongyang, February 26 (KCNA) -- Supreme leader Kim Jong Un
received a letter from participants in the meeting of the Presidential
Council of the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) held in Italy on
Feb. 15.

The letter said that leader Kim Jong Il
dedicated himself to happiness of the working masses all his life and
reliably defended socialism from all threats, blackmails and sanctions
of the imperialists.Kim Jong Il's revolutionary idea and cause are being steadfastly carried forward by Kim Jong Un, it stressed.
The letter strongly demanded the U.S. and the south Korean
authorities stop at once the dangerous military exercises which will
lead the situation on the Korean peninsula and the north-south relations
to catastrophe and unconditionally accept the crucial proposal and open
letter of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK.
In the letter the WFTU expressed full sympathy and support for the
DPRK's stand that foreign forces should be rejected, the stand of By Our
Nation Itself be firmly adhered to and an atmosphere be created for
improving the north-south relations if the reunification of Korea is to
be achieved.
The WFTU will as ever extend invariable solidarity to the General
Federation of Trade Unions of Korea and the whole Korean working class,
the letter concluded. -0-

A number of western media outlets have recently published what are purported to be pictures taken by space of the DPRK showing in total darkness. However any honest-mined person who has been to Pyongyang can tell that Pyongyang is lit up at night and electricity is working 24 hours. These pictures proved it

Tuesday, 25 February 2014

Who is Behind the
Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in NorthKorea?

Everyone interested in the Korean peninsula and following a few Western
media outlets has probably heard, these last days, of the Commission on Human
Rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK – North Korea),
created on March 21, 2013 by a resolution of the UN Council on Human Rights

Made public on Feb. 17, 2014, the conclusions of the Commission are devastating
to the DPRK since the report calls for the appearance of the North Korean
leaders before the International Criminal Court (ICC) - a highly unlikely
event, however, given the opposition of China, a member of the UN Security
Council.

Therefore, what is the real purpose of this report, conveniently published,
as so often is the case when it comes to human rights in North Korea, at a
moment of relative relaxation on the peninsula, and more than one month ahead
of the original publication schedule?

In fact, the work of the Commission of Inquiry is very largely a sketch
drawn from that carried out by a group of forty associations, foremost among
which is the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (English, Committee for
Human Rights in North Korea, HRNK).

The "investigations " of HRNK are highly controversial for
their lack of reliability, HRNK is not a judicial organization which guarantees
the professionalism and independence expected in a court, even a private court,
but rather one of the many outpourings of the American neo-conservative sphere
in the wake of the "Axis of Evil” speech of George W. Bush, which
tirelessly seeks the collapse of regimes deemed enemies of the United States.

Having worked hand in hand with the HRNK, the UN Commission of Inquiry
has consistently espoused its conclusions written in advance from it, and thus
is not required to conduct face-to-face hearings or with people, the so called
victims of acts committed by the North Korean authorities, nor to conduct an
adversarial investigation with the North Korean authorities in question – as an
uncontested judicial body would have done.

There are acknowledgments of fatherhood, which may be painful. The noisy
satisfaction of HRNK -- a self-proclaimed American Association for the Defence
of Human Rights in North Korea, in reality a neo-conservative lobby – at
finding in the report of the Commission on Human Rights in DPRK its own work
and conclusions is a damning admission that the UN Council of Human Rights,
like its predecessor, an instrument in the game of states and lobbies.

The Council establishes itself as a tool of American power to justify,
in the North Korean, case a sanctions regime whose populations are the prime
victims, if not the only victims.

For, the argument of human rights is used only in one direction: to
justify the use of all means, both legal and illegal, against some states whose
main fault is not to yield to the US will, when other countries, Saudi Arabia,
or yesterday, Pinochet's Chile, are conveniently exempt from criticism by the
same defenders of human rights. Even if the practice is as old as diplomacy, it
is curious to see media such as the French Communist daily, L'Humanité, do
promotion of American neoconservatives, without any critical analysis of the
reliability of sources.

Having fully achieved its objectives, HRNK no longer has to hide the efficacy
of its lobbying. Let’s recall that one of the founders of HRNK, in 2001, is
Nicholas Eberstadt of the American Enterprise Institute, the neoconservative
think tank which invented the concept of Axis of Evil dear to George W. Bush.

HRNK is co-directed by Suzanne Scholte, who is nostalgic for Ronald
Reagan. She is a member of several neo-conservative
organizations and founder of the Foundation for Defense Forum,an "NGO" funded until 2001 by
Donald Rumsfeld.

The first Special Rapporteur for North Korea appointed by the Commission
on Human Rights of the United Nations (predecessor of the Council of Human
Rights of the United Nations), designated Vittit Muntarbhorn in 2004, who then
became a prominent member of HRNK.

And it is HNRK which pleaded for years for the Council of Human Rights
of the United Nations created the Commission of Inquiry for the Human Rights of
the United Nations , to which he provided much of the material and recycled it
without any adversarial scrutiny of their probative value. Even the name of the
commission d is almost identical to that of the NGOs, introducing an
intentional confusion on its official character that it wants to be given to the
aforementioned NGO.

HNRK is the pivot of forty associations grouped in the International
Coalition to Stop Crimes against Humanity in North Korea (International
Coalition to Stop Crimes against Humanity in North Korea, ICNK ) . ICNK is very
active in publishing new "revelations" about human rights in North
Korea where one can dialogue with the DPRK could lead to out of its isolation ,
which is unacceptable for ICNK activists neoconservatives who have made their
credo of the Axis of Evil by George W. Bush

One of ICNK operations occurred in spring 2012 , when there was
political change in France : ICNK met with President François Hollande and Socialist
leaders and diplomats close to the Socialist Party at the Quai d' Orsay, while quickly
publishing two shocking books on human rights in North Korea whose promotion
was particularly supported in our country: Camp
Survivor #14: From North Korean Hell to Freedom and North Korea: Nine Years to Escape Hell. The objective was to forget
the successful image of DPR Korea crated by the presentation in France of the Unhasu
orchestra, and also to forestall any possible sympathy for the socialist
government of North Korea after the change of leadership in 1981, following the
election of François Mitterrand, just as the South Korean government had feared.

Coming back to the serious scientific gaps in the circumstances in which
the inquiry was conducted, and in particular to the dubious testimony of Shin
Dong-hyuk in Camp Survivor #14 the UN Commission
contented itself merely to find fault with whatever was suggested in the line of
the campaigners at ICNK and HNRK.

Konstantin Asmolov, Russian researcher at the Center for Korean Studies
at the Institute for Far Eastern Studies, makes the following observations:

"How does the
commission work? The North Koreans did not let it enter. When it went to South
Korea, instead of face-to-face conversations with the witnesses, it organized
public hearings. At these public hearings there were 30 people who told all sorts
of horror stories. There was Shin Dong-hyuk who does not speak with a North
Korean accent, and whose hands are those of an intellectual rather than a
person who lived in a camp all his life. The commission has not conducted enough
private interviews in order to accuse
the government [of North Korea] of war crimes and famines. It was a show.
"

In an interview given to the daily La Croix , Jean-Vincent Brisset, a
researcher at the Institute of International and Strategic Relations (IRIS),
also highlights the serious scientific shortcomings of the report published by
the Commission on Human Rights in DPRK:

"This report raises serious
questions about the scientific method. It has been prepared without going to
North Korea, and solely on the basis of testimonies from people who say they
were victims of the regime. This is a strictly conditional statement[ ... ]

“For example, concerning
satellite images intended to prove the existence of the camps, I remember
seeing a few years ago, a number of other satellite images that tended to prove
that North Korea had a nuclear test and which were false, or were interpreted
the wrong way. [ ... ]

“Note: what the UN report
says is true enough as regards the abuses being committed. But to show only
that side, without placing it back in a broader context, destroys the validity
of the whole.

.

It should have spoken of how
the United States has dealt with the problem of North Korea, how it used North
Korea as a foil, how it prevented a number of achievements between North Korea
and South Korea.... This is a thirty-year story! There is only one notion about
North Korea, and the report is in line with this notion. This kind of report,
when it is done in a very serious manner, may be useful because it helps
solidify things that are in the nature of rumors. But this is rather a “mood“
report, which is made by interviewing only a part of the stakeholders. "

As a result, we share fully the finding that the report is not the
result of a process aimed at change on the issue of human rights, since its
efficacy would then have demanded the identification of discussion points with
North Korean authorities on specific topics where constructive dialogue can be
held.

This is, for example is what -- around the world, but not in North Korea
-- the French Ambassador for Human
Rights does, aware that no government in the world complies with good conduct
lessons that a foreign power can direct to it, even if it be under the guise of
the United Nations. This is also the approach adopted by the British
government, when for the first time it supported the participation of a North
Korean athlete at the Paralympics - with tangible results: the DPRK now more
actively communicates its actions against disability in its various forms.

In the matter of human rights as diplomacy, the France-Korea Friendship
Association believes this is no longer a time to practice a discriminatory
policy of double standards against DPR Korea and the North Korean people, taken
hostage by the lobbying of NGOs that are really disguised neo-conservative
organizations.

The activities of these bogus humanitarians (for they have never helped
the tiniest group of people in DPR Korea) have, for their sole purpose, the
strengthening the strictest sanctions regime in the world - with all the
negative consequences it has on the well-being of people, starting with the
right to food security.